Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-16
RAILROAD SUIT.
aRExssvrtLEs SUBSCRIPTION 10 THE
ATLANTIC AND panvILLR.
Avigorous Cooperation In the South Side
Pushing . Railroad Gift Of
q Church.


Kcrcspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
PErxRsBuRo, March Is, 1887.
II is learned that number Of promi-
Aent citizens and taxpayers Of the
county Of Greensyillc have recently In
stitutod in the Circuit Court OF that
county Judge Hancock's COURT suit
attacking the validity of the county's
subscription 20 the capital stock of the
Atlantic and Danville Railway Compa-
nv. Ever since the vote taken in No
vember, 1882, the regularity and legal
i,y OF the proceedings Of the County
Court of Greensville and OF the Board
Of Superyisors-under which the
company claimed the county as sab
scriber at the rate Of $500 for each
mile OF road 10 be built within the
county-have been questioned. In the
suit now instituted the railroad COM
pany and the Board of Supervisors are
thc defendants. and the Court is asked
20 grant an injunction prohibiting the
issuiDg Of any bonds to the company,
said company being now entitled to
something over $4,000 of the county's
bonds il the subscription is legal.
The taxpayers raise several points in
Tins suit. They claim that the original
order Of the Court directing nm election
was directly violative of the provision
OF the Code of Virginia governing in
euch cases, and that everything done
under this order was, therefore, unau
thorized and void. They further claim
that if this were not true the company
has recently obtained such amendments
Of its charter rs in law release all sub
scribers not asserting to the amend
ments.
The subscription, as claimed by the
railroad company, will certainly call
for something between forty and fifty
thousand dollars, and possibly con
siderably more money, when the road
shall have been constructed as pro-
posed. This suit accordingly creates
considerable interest in the county.
II is said that a majority of the Board
of Supervisors viii cooperate with the
plaintiffs to secure decision declaring
the county not bound as q subscriber.
The counsel for the taxpayers and
for the Board of Supervisors are Messrs.
Tredway d Barham and W. Samuel
GOODWIN. of Greensville, and Messrs.
Collier & Budd and George s. Bernard,
of this city. Mr.. Richard B. Davis, of
this city, represents the Atlantic and
Danville Railway Company. The suit
will mature for hearing at the April
term of Judge Hancock's court.
sURRY, SUSSEX AND SOUTHAMPTON RAIL
WAY.
This road has been completed, and is
now in operation from James river to |
Muscle Fork, q point about six miles |
east Of Wakefield station, on the Norfolk |
and Western railroad The wharves at |
the terminus on James river we're built |
by the Elizabeth Improvement Com
pany at cost of sl0, 900, and are the
finest and most substantial on the river.
The station at the terminus has been
named Scotland, and is now quite
shipping point. Steamers from Peters
burg, Richmond, Norfolk, and Cape
Charles stop there daily. The company
expect to start work on the extension
of the road to-day, and to have passen-
ger trains running through by the LIST
OF July next. The company are now
building at Muscle Fork a large hotel
for the accommodation of their en-
ploy(s. The railroad is owned princi-
pally by the Surry Lumber Company,
which is composed of Baltimore capt.
talists. They will erect the largest
lumber-manufacturing establishment in
the State. to be supplied with machinery
of the latest improvements and of the
most substantial kind.
GIFTS OF A CHURCH AND scHooLHoUsE.
The president of this company will
build and present as gifts to the en-
ployes church and public school
house as an encouragement OF both re-
lgion and education among them. 1t
would seem by all that has been done
and is proposed to be done that these
people have no fears about Virginia's
action in reference to the debt question.
POLITICS IN THE COUNTIES.
Politics are growing warm in the
counties 1t is learned from Surry that
the Republicans of that county have
been instructed or advised from head;
quarters to make strict party nomina-
tons for all the county Offices, and that
a conference has been called to take the
necessary steps i'll this direction. The
bulk OF the white Republicans are in
the town of Claremont, and it is said
they have a candidate for each of the
offices in that enterprising place.
No nominations have yet been made
in Prince George, Dinwiddie, or Sus-
sex, hut it is probable that at least in
the first and last named of these coun-
ties candidates will soon be put for
ward. There will be no lack for mate
rial for the several offices, as the aspi-
rants are said to be numerous and ac
tive.
PERSONAL NOTES.
His honor Mayor Jarratt presided
in the Mayors Court this morning for
the first time in some weeks, having
been confined for the most time at home
by illness.
Miss Mary Lou bearing, daughter Of
the late General bearing, of Lynch
burg, is visiting relatives and friends
here. ROBIN ADAIR.
DanviIIe's Dots.
Especial telegram 20 the Dispatchl